i love feeleez: (my first giveaway)

I have been wanting to write this post for days, but the past week has been chaotic to say the least. I've been under an undue amount of stress and seem to be racing against the clock constantly. There have been quite a few days, when I have felt like this:

 

Frazzled

Thank goodness I have the opportunity to workout regularly. I don't know what I'd do without my kickboxing classes. After those, I feel like this:

 

Strong and Empowered

My emotions are difficult to get a handle on these days. Imagine being a kid and just learning to deal with the plethora of emotions that we all possess. It's a challenge. The older The Inventor becomes, the more I realize I can't just give him a kiss and make everything better. Like all of us, he needs to learn to understand his emotions and cope with them in intelligent ways. So, when I saw the Feeleez game online, I had to get it for us. 

 

The concept is simple. The tin includes 25 pairs of feeling cards, plus ideas on how to use them. You can use them for a simple matching game for younger kids. It helps kids learn to identify different emotions that we or they might feel or encounter someone else feeling. Also included are instructions for using the cards with older kids. With The Inventor, who is six and a half, we use them to find cards that describe how he is currently feeling and how he wants to feel. Sometimes he and I have different impressions of how he is feeling and we will pull out different cards. This leads to great discussions and a learning experience for us both. We also use the cards to make up stories, which gives us the opportunity to create scenarios and talk about coping strategies. These simple cards have proven to be remarkable communication tool in our home. I cannot say enough good things about them.

 

I love Feeleez so much that I contacted the company to see if it would be okay with them, if I let my readers know about them. They agreed, something about which I am thrilled. They were also terrific enough to offer a FREE Feeleez game to the winner of a giveaway on my blog. All that you have to do to enter is leave a comment between today and Monday, November 26th at 8 PM. I will close the comments at that time and using a random number generator, select the winning post. I will notify and announce the winner. All you then need to do is email me your address and we will have a game shipped to you. Good luck!

Comments

[Robin]

oooh! This is interesting. Do you think 4 1/2 is too young?

[Trina]

Absolutely not. The cards are just images. The rest is up to you. That's what makes them so versatile. I think they'd be great for that age.

[Trina]

I don't think that's too young at all. I think they'd be great for that age. There are no words on the cards, just faces, so the rest is up to you. They are really versatile and lend themselves to a number of activities.

[Tofusamurai]

I'd love a chance to win this game. It looks like a great way to communicate with kids.

[Mama K]

Enter me please!

mamaknj @ msn . com (no spaces)

[Gen]

Looks like a great game!

[Katie B.]

I'm in! I think the Infanta will love those... especially when she gets past trying to eat them. >.<

-Mendylady

[jules]

this looks like a great game. i wish i knew about it when the boy was younger and we were teaching him about emotions. those pictures are cute to boot!

[Robin]

Oops! my email was entered wrong. Its fixed here.

[Tofusamurai]

Oops again. I am Tofusamurai my name is Robin as well.